Car-door.



' No'.'859, 049. PATENTED JULY .2. 1907.

' J. B. dos'ron.

GAR DOOR. APPLICATION mam JULY13.1906.

JAMES B. GOSTON, OF FORDYOE, ARKANSAS.

CAR-DOOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 2, 1907.

Application filed July 13, 1906. Serial No. 326,031.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES B. OosroN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Fordyce, in the county of Dallas and State of Arkansas, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Gar-Doors, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention has relation to new and useful improvements in doors forrailway cars and similar vehicles, and has for its object to eliminatethe difiiculties now experienced with sliding doors and to dispense withthe costly overhead trolley supports and guides new employed.

More particularly, it is my purpose to provide a railway car with a doorhaving a pinion or other equivalent means near one of its lower cornersby means of which it may be tilted outwardly so as to expose the dooropening. To assist in opening and closing the door I provide a weightwhich is adapted to slide up and down in a casing or chute in the car,and is connected by a rope or cable to said door, so that the same maybe lowered and closed with but little exertion. I also provide guideswhich are engaged by the upper end and outer edge of the door whenopened, and preferably construct the door with its upper inner edge cutaway and employ in lieu thereof an independent corner door which ishinged to the side of the car.

With these ends in view my invention consists in the novel construction,combination, and arrangement of parts as set forth in the specificationand claims hereunto attached.

In the accompanying drawings in which like parts are designated by likecharacters throughout the several views:Figure 1, is a front elevationof a section of a car door provided with my improved door. Fig. 2, is adetail edge view of the hinged corner door.

My-invention is described as follows :The numeral 1, represents anordinary construction of railway car, and 2, my improved tilting door.Said door 2 is preferably constructed with its upper inner corner cutaway, and in lieu thereof thereis employed an independent corner door 3,which ishinged to one of the sides of said car by means of a hinge 4, ofany desired construction. Secured to the lower edge of said corner door3, one on each side thereof, are strips 5, which are secured in -to saiddoor 2 near its upper inner part in any desired manner is one end of arope or cable 6, which runs upwardly and outwardly and passes inwardlythrough an opening or perforation 7, preferably located above andadjacent the upper outer corner of said door in the adjacent side of thecar. Said rope is provided at its free end with a weight 8, which slidesdown and up in a casing or chute secured to the inner face of one of thesides of the car when opening or closing the door. Se cured near or atthe lower outer corner of said door is a pinion 9. When I wish to openthe door I take hold of a handle 9, secured preferably to the door nearits side edge adjacent said hinge 41, and turn the door to the right onsaid pinion 9 During this operation said weight 8 slides down in itscasing or chute and greatly facilitates in opening the door. It alsofacilitates in closing said door. The dotted lines approximately showthe position of the weight when the door is half open and entirely open.When open, the upper end and outer edge of said door engage in guides10, secured to one of the sides of the car. The dotted lines adjacentsaid corner door 3 show the position of same when open, which cornerwould not have to be opened often. When said door is closed, its upperinner edge passes in between said straps or flanges 5, and comes incontact with the lower edge of said corner door 3. As the upper inneredge of said door and the lower edge of said corner are cut on the samecircle, they necessarily conform with each other with respect to theircurvatures The construction of the corner door 3, straps 5, and thecorner of the tilting door 2, form a double lock; that is, the strapshold the tilting door from springing in or out, while said tilting door,fitting between said straps, keeps the said corner door from opening inor out.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

1. In combination with a railway car, having a door opening in its side,a tilting door 2, having one of its upper corners cut away on a circle,thus leaving a corner opening when closed, hinged in said opening at oneof its lower corners, and adapted to be tilted backwards out of saiddoor opening; a corner door 3, hinged in said opening,

having its lower edge out on the same circle with said til'tbackwardsout of said door opening; a, corner door; 3, v hinged in said corneropening, having its loweredge. not on the same cinolo with saidtiltingdoor and filling said corner opening, and straps 5, one secured on eachside or said corner door in such position that their lower edges, extenda little below the lower edge 01' said corner door, said tilting doorprovided at its upper end with a. cord and weights, 10 substantially asshown and described and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification 1n the,pi'esence of 'two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES B. COSTON. Witnesses:

Fmsmm P. COLEMAN,

.Tnssn P. BENTON.

